The goal of @dantheman and the people making steem is that is should be able to exist without them. Dan is an Anarcho-Capitalist (at least that is the closest fitting label) as am I. That generally is someone that is Libertarian that eventually decides that ultimately we don't need rulers.

That is all fine and dandy, but how do you implement that in code. That is tricky.

The reason to do this is even if you have moderators, they are human, with bias and eventually they too will abuse their position.

So how can you fix this? It is NOT an easy problem, or someone likely would have already done it, yet that is the position that Steemit is in and trying to think of solutions.

Moderators ultimately do not seem to be the answer either. You end up with places they are moderating becoming their subjective kingdoms.

People should never be getting downvoted/flagged for opinion. We don't need that.

Yet how do we insure that is the case?